Brendan Shine is an Irish

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 folk singer and accordion

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 player from Athlone, best known for his songs about everyday Irish life such as "Do you Want your Old Lobby Washed Down" and "Spuds".

Shine originally started off a barman, he set up a pub in Baylough in Athlone, across from St.Comans Park, 'Shine's Bar', He let his wife run the pub, recently Shine has sold the pub but the name remains 'Shines Bar'. He lives now in Moore, on the main road to Shannonbride in an ordinary old 2 story farm house, with a large farm attached to it

Shine has released more than forty albums and has had over thirty-five hit singles. He began by playing in his father's country

Country music

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 band while still at school, played in Kieran Kelly’s Ceili Band along with schoolfriend Johnny Dawson (who still performs with Shine in the Brendan Shine Super Band), originally making his name as an accordionist before taking up singing and becoming one of Ireland's best-known entertainers. In 1971, he topped the Irish charts with "O'Brien Has No Place to Go", which stayed in the charts for five months.

He has also presented several television series in Ireland, including Nice and Easy and Shine On as well as appearing on The Late Late Show

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In 2004, Shine was banned from driving in the UK for a year after pleading guilty to drink-driving.

In late 2010, Shine is on tour across the UK playing a variety of venues such as the Lincoln Theatre Royal on the 17 November.

Albums

• Céili House (1973) Play
• This is Brendan Shine (1974) Play
• Simple Love Songs Play
• Catch Me If You Can Play
• The Irish Side of Brendan Shine (1980) Pickwick
• Country And Irish (1982) Play
• Nice and Easy (1983) Play
• Blue Misty Eyes Play
• Moonshine (1986) Play
• A Picture of My World (1988) Play
• Magic Moments With.. (1989) Stylus (UK #62)
• Memories (1992) Play (UK #81)
• Always a Welcome (1992) Avid
• New Roads (1992) Play
• I Wanna Stay With You (1995) Carlton
• If You Ever Go Over to Ireland (1996) Hallmark
• I'll Settle for Old Ireland: 18 Country & Irish Favourites (1997) Hallmark
• Lovin You (1999) Avid
• Far Far Away (2003) Avid
• Soft, Sweet and Warm (2003) Blitz
• With Love (2004) Am Cheoil (UK #74)
• Shine on (2004) Am Cheoil
• Live at the Circus Tavern (2004) Am Cheoil
• Live at Blazers (2004) Am Cheoil
• At Home in Ireland: 18 Sentimental Songs (2004) Am Cheoil
• Shine on 21 (2005) Am Cheoil
• At Home (2005) Am Cheoil
• Dear Hearts & Gentle People Pulse
• Like Father, Like Daughter Intersound
• Irish Party Time Beaumax
• Grandad (The first time I heard him say ) & Other Family Favourites
• Seasons of the Heart (2008) Pegasus
• Live at Thatch
• Rose of Castlerea

Notable compilations:

• The Brendan Shine Collection (1983) Play (UK #51)

Videos and DVDs

• Brendan Shine White Star
• At Home In Ireland (2007) Proper Music Distribution
• Shine On (2007) Proper Music Distribution
• Live At Blazers (2007) Proper Music Distribution
• Live At The Circus Tavern (2007) Proper Music Distribution
• The Very Best Of (2007) H and H

Singles

• "A Bunch Of Violets blue" (1970) Play (Ireland #6)
• "O'Brien Has No Place to Go" (1971) (Ireland #1)*"
• "Where Three Counties Meet" (1973) (Ireland #1)
• "I'm Little But There's Lots of Me to Love" (1974) Play (Ireland #5) (Brendan Shine Superband Featuring Johnny Dawson)*"
• "Abbeyshrule" (1974) (Ireland #1)
• "Suzie Brown" (1974)(Ireland #20)(With Johnny Dawson and Brendan Shine Superband)*"
• "The Old Rugged Cross" Play
• Ould Ballymoe"
• "Far Too Young" Play (Ireland #4)*"
• "Dun Laoghaire " Play (1975)(Ireland #6)*"
• "I'll Be Home" Play (Ireland #10)*"
• "Down the Wrong Road Again" Play (Ireland #16)*"
• "All My Roads Lead Back To You " Play (1976)(Ireland #1)*"
• "How Much Time" Play (1977)(Ireland #2)*"
• "Do You Want Your Oul Lobby Washed Down" (1979) (Ireland #1)
• "Carrots" (1980) Play (Ireland #10)*"
• "I believe in marriage " Play (Ireland #18) *"
• "If the Shoe Fits" Play (Ireland #19)*"
• "Christmas Time In Ireland" (1976)(Ireland #5)*"
• "Doogens" Play (Ireland #25)*"
• "Some Broken Hearts never mend" (Ireland #5)*"
• "Hey Louise" (1982) Play (Ireland #20)*"
• "Me Old Bone Shaker" (1982) Play
• "My Old Country Home" (1982) Play (Ireland #29)*" (UK #84)
• "The Village Where I Went to School" (1983) Play
• "County Down" (1983) (UK #78)
• "Thank God for Kids" (1983)(Ireland #25) (UK #78)
• "Shine" (1983) Play
• "Rose of Castlerea" Play (Ireland #16)*"
• "Song of the Myra" Play (Ireland #19)*"
• "Three Pubs In Bohola" Play (Ireland #14)*"
• "Can't Hold Back The Years" (1984) Play (Ireland #30)*"
• "Now I'm Easy (Cocky Farmer)" (1984) Play
• "Nancy Myles" (1984) Play
• "Only Our Rivers Run Free" Play (Ireland #24)*"
• Four Great Tracks EP Spartan
• "Pub Crawl" Play
• "Me Uncle Mike" Play (Brendan Shine And His Outhouse Music)
• "Melody For You" (1985) Play (Ireland #23)*"
• "You" (1985) Play
• "Loneliness" (1986) (UK #82)
• "You'll Never Go Back" (1986) Play
• "My Son" (1986) Play (Ireland #14)*"
• "Song For Maria" (1987) Play
• "Rose of Castlerea" Play
• "(Turn Out The Lights) Love Me Tonight" Play (Ireland #11)*"
• "Now I'm Sixty Four" Play
• "Late Late Show" Play (Ireland #26)*"
• "Catch Me If You Can" Play (Ireland #10)*"
• "IF I DREAM" Play (Ireland #18)*"
• "Doogeen's Place in the Choir"
• "Bould O'Donaghue" Play
• "Sailor Boy" Play (1970)(Ireland #8)*"
• "Magic Moments" (1989) Play
• "Robinson's Ball" (1990) Play
• "Rinka" (1991) Play (Ireland #11)*"
• "I Wanna Stay With You" (1995)
• "One More Chance" Play
• "The Celtic Tiger" Play (1997)(Ireland #21) *"
• "You'll Never Miss Your Mother" Play (Ireland #4)
• "Murphy's Dancing Pig" Play
• "Maid with the Bonny Brown Hair"
• "March of the High Kings" Play (Ireland #8)*"
• "High Germany"
• "Shoe the Donkey"
• "By the Devil
• "Fields of Athenry
• "Grandad" (2007) (Ireland #24)